Recover Application Source files from remote distribution point

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DeploymentTechie asked Jan 21, '22 Amandayou-MSFT commented May 10, '22

Recover Application Source files from remote distribution point

Hi Techies,

We have recently faced this problem. Our primary sites installation drive is corrupt and on the same drive we used to keep the source files of drivers, packages, applications.

Lately we are able to recover the sccm installation files , sccm is up and running , but all source files are gone from the drive. We have no back up.

We distributed the all packages to almost 50 distribution points. and that is we are able to deploy os, packages without any issue.

Can we recover the source files from the distribution points ? And what will be the impact without source files in future ?

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Answer 1 · 2022-01-24T07:23:21.6Z

Amandayou-MSFT answered Jan 24, '22 DeploymentTechie commented May 2, '22

Hi @DeploymentTechie-4797，

Based on my experience, we may not to recover the source files from the distribution points. Once the content is distributed to the DP, the file is copied from the shared file to the contentlib, the format is modified, we could not recover it.

And what will be the impact without source files in future?

In such situation, it will affect nothing. If the site is migrated in future, there is no source files in site server, and be an impact.

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Amandayou-MSFT · Jan 28 at 06:20 AM

Hi,

Just checking in to see if there is any update. May we know the current status of the question? If there is any other assistance we can provide, please feel free to let us know, we will do our best to help you.

Thanks and regards,
Amanda

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DeploymentTechie · May 02 at 02:30 PM

Hi @Amandayou-MSFT Thank you for the reply ! Finally we recovered all of the our source files. Please read below comments for our solution. Hope we are doing it correctly.

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Answer 2 · 2022-05-02T13:13:40.463Z

DeploymentTechie answered May 2, '22 Amandayou-MSFT commented May 10, '22

There is no direct way of recovering source files from the distribution points.

This article might help ! Its a very time consuming process to find out the binaries from Distribution point SCCMContentLib Folder.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/configuration-manager-archive/understanding-the-configuration-manager-content-library/ba-p/273349

There are two easy way to recover packages and applications binaries we tested and tried and it served our purpose.

by deploying Software/Applications to software center and collecting them from C:\windows\ccmcache folder.
Task sequence reference items ( applications, packages, OS, Boot file, patches) can easlity be recovered by creating offline media of the task sequence. Later on by mounting the ISO you can easily find the binaries using package IDs from SCCM console.

Hope this will help !

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Amandayou-MSFT · May 10 at 03:09 AM

Hi,

Thanks for your update and sharing.

I am so glad to this method achieve our purpose. It will make someone who has the similar issue easily find the answer.

If you have any other issues, please don't hesitate to let us know.

Thanks and have a nice day.

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